#1 WTF are you posting a picture of President Biden?

"Any non-AIPAC candidate for POTUS in 2028 would be so refreshing."

Yeah?!?!

Unicorns and lollipops and clouds made of cotton candy might be so refreshing, too.

But intelligent people deal with the cards in their hand, not some imaginary nirvana.

"AOC has the most name recognition and social followers."

AOC is a phenomenal person, a gifted politician, and clearly the voice and face of the future of the Democratic Party.

That said, however, and with a clear vision to what happened to the Democratic Party nominees in 2016 and 2024 ...

... AOC at the top of the Democratic Party ticket in 2028 would make the Republican blowouts in 1972 and 1984 seem like nail-biters in comparison. 'Tis a Republican political hack's wet dream.

Want to see AOC ascend to the top?

Then do all the hard and difficult work of bringing in new voters, educating them, imbue them with a sense of community, working towards electing Democrats.

But damning candidates running in the only viable alternative to the Republican Party in America in 2026 and 2028 - for not being pure - is political suicide.

Never fear the next generation; at one time we were all the next generation

#7 Good to see you, ExpectingReign.

#7 On January 26th of this year, I posted a ** HAPPY BIRTHDAY DETHSPUD ** thread, which received many, many good comments.

"Be well," was a common comment.

But, alas, I do not believe that Dethspud hangs around here anymore.

He was good people, ExpectingReign.

#12 JPW states the truth when he says, "While it may concern many voters, this is not driving the lack of turnout like you believe."

Thank you.

#14 Clown, I think it is working out just fine for Democratic Party candidates, 2025 and 2026 ...

-> Georgia voters ousted two Republican members of the state's Public Service Commission in favor of two Democrats - the first Democrats to win statewide nonfederal offices in decades.

-> Democrats in Mississippi Break the G.O.P.'s State House Supermajority

-> Every single county in Virginia - even deeply red counties - saw shifts TOWARDS the Democrats, as opposed to how they voted 1 year ago.

-> Dems flip Wichita School Board from a 4-3 GOP majority to a 5-2 Democratic majority. Democratic candidates Amy Warren and Amy Jensen defeated Republican incumbents Hazel Stabler and Kathy Bond.

-> Two of Tuesday's school board elections were in Bucks County, Pa., which was considered "ground zero" for right-wing groups' takeover of school boards in 2021. A few years ago, conservatives on these boards in Pennbridge and Central Bucks districts were using their roles to pass policies targeting LGBTQ+ students and banning books.

---> Democrats flipped control of both boards in 2023, and on Tuesday, they ousted every Republican from both of these boards, except for one. The Pennbridge school board is now 8-1, with Democratic members in control. The Central Bucks school board is 9-0.

-> In Texas, we even won in Lockhart, which sits in a district so red that Democrats normally don't even run. We had a clean sweep in Cy-Fair ISD, another deeply red area that not even Greg Abbott could save your party.

-> In SD-9, another red district, we saw an 8 point shift for the Democrat

-> Eileen Higgins elected as first Democratic mayor of Miami in three decades

#17 Clown, just what "bubble" do you think JPW is trying to convince himself of?

Are you really trying to say that?

If the Israeli/Hamas war is a deciding issue for Democratic Party voters, then certainly you can back that up with some data.

Right?

Or are you really trying to claim that domestic issues directly affecting voters is not the primary driver of voting habits here in the USA?

Really?

#24 Clown says, apparently, with a straight face, "Republicans love that the DNC is currently divided by this issue."

Where's the division, Clown?